Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1887-02-10
NEWS SUMMARY.

klns, OF Boston, was appointed bishop
OF Rhode Island by the Pope Tuesday.
Ia the joint session Of the Texas leo
lslature Tuesday Ex-Governor Ireland's
name was withdrawn aud Judge Terrell
re entered the senatorial race. The
twcntyfOurth ballot was as follows
Reagan 40, Mackey 40, Terrell So, and
eX-GovernOr Roberts 2. On the thirty
frs ballot Reagan lacked but votes Of
election, whercupon several changes
were made amidst great excitement
electlDg Reagan. Tae final ballot stood
Reagan II, Maxey 50, scattering 6
Subsequently Reagan's election was
made unanimous.
The Alabama house Tuesday passed q
bill making The keeping of gambling
house felony, punishable by imprison,
ment III ih3 penitentiary.
DR.. Matt Alexander, leading physl-
clan Of Knoxville, Tenn, committed
suicide Tuesday with morphine. He left
q note, two Of the sentences being: 81
60 to hell. Tell my son to 60 to
heaven"
Eighteen hundred of the strikers in
Lorillard'S tobacco factory in Jersey
City rerorned to work Monday morning
at the firms terms.
The following is rccaptulation Of
the statement issued Tues lay: Interest
bearing debt, total including interest,
81, 157, 279, 522; debt on which interest
has ceased since maturity, total $751;
112. Debt bearing 10 interest 1885,.
390,138. Total debt including interest
I$1,731,163,783. Decrease of debt dur
| ing the month $9,515,G86. Cash in the
treasury available for a reduction of
the debt $370,934,723. Total cash in
the treasury as shown by treasurer's gen
eral accounts $450,826, ago.
4 hundred and fifteen men were ar
rested at a cock fight Monday night in
Cincinnati by well organized force
consisting Of sixty men and three patrol
wagon. Tuesday morning the prisoners
were arraigned and forty entered a plea
of guilty and were fined $25 and costs
each.
The Chadwick bleachery at Newburg,
n. j., was destroyed by fire Monday
night, entalliug loss of $4,000. Jo-
scph Tillotson, aged 81, persisted in the
flames, and many others were severely
burned.
In ehe Alderman O'Neil bribery case
at New York Tuesday evening Judge
Barrett delivered his charge to the jury,
which returned into court at II :15 with
a verdict Of guilty. The usual motions
in the arrest of judgment and for a new
trial were made.
Just before the steamer Guyandottc,
carrying q mixed cargo and passengers
and a crew numbering hfty-seven, left
the New York wharf Monday, young
man came up from tho cabin hurriedly
and went ashore. When the steamer
was off Long Branch a tremendous ex-
plosion occurred. Investigation showed
that q hole fifteen feet square was blown
through both decks, doing much dam
age to the cabin and JOINER work. No
one was seriously injured. The young
man who left the ship just before she
started, came aboard with a small
satchel in his hand. He aid not have it
when he went ashore. 1t is believed the
satchel contained explosives. The
steamer pat back to port for repairs.
The hardware store of Beardsley &
Pratt, and two adjoining buildings at
Otter Lake, Mich, were burned Mon
day morning, causing loss OF $50, 900.
The opera house block and other pub
lie buildings Of Mercer, Pa, were de-
stroytd Thursday morning by an lncep
diary fire. The loss is $4,000 ana $780,
600 insurance.
Monday morning high wind sprung
up on the west slope OF the Cascade
mountains, east of Tacoma, w. T..
about eleven miles from the west end of
the Northern Pacific tunnel, and blew
down large tree into camp where q
number of Chinese labOrors were sleep
ing. Nine dead bodies had been Ie-
moved at the last accounts and 4 dozen
or more injured. Three to four feet Of
snow is on the ground and several bod
les are still supposed to be buried IN
the snow under he fallen timber.
Apparently by preconcerted action,
committees of freight handlers Of a
number Of roads entering New York
presented formulated demands on the
management Monday. The freight hand
ler3 of the Pennsylvania railroad com
pany employed in companies at North
River pieIs notified the managers that
unless the rate of wages was increased
from II cents to 20 cents per hour, "A
general strike would follow all along
the mpany's docks. There are about
two thousand men employed on the
piers. Demands were also made by the
freight handlers employed by the Cen
trail railroad Of New Jersey and by
New York Lake Erie s. Western. for